Re: Bug#628018: [PATCH] notmuch-mutt utility for notmuch/contrib/

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+Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:03:32 -0600\r
+From: Scott Barker <scott@mostlylinux.ca>\r
+To: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc>\r
+Subject: Re: Bug#628018: [PATCH] notmuch-mutt utility for notmuch/contrib/\r
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+FYI, I use the following in my .muttrc, which includes an expansion of $HOME\r
+in <change-folder-readonly>, and it works fine:\r
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+  macro index / "<shell-escape>mutt-notmuch --prompt search<enter><change-folder-readonly>$HOME/.cache/mutt_results<enter>" "notmuch search"\r
+\r
+On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 05:29:02PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:\r
+> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 08:09:13AM -0700, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote:\r
+> > > Another thing is this .cache hardcoding. Should this be resolved\r
+> > > first by using $XDG_CACHE_HOME, (then *MAYBE* $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/.cache)\r
+> > > and finally $HOME/.cache\r
+> > \r
+> > These are good points.  I agree that since ~/.cache is an XDG standard\r
+> > we should resolve the appropriate environment variables.\r
+> \r
+> Heya, thanks for your feedback. I agree as well!\r
+> \r
+> But while it's trivial to make notmuch-mutt itself support\r
+> $XDG_CACHE_HOME, it is less so for the Mutt configuration snippet\r
+> (i.e. the notmuch-mutt.rc file which is part of my submission). AFAICT\r
+> the <change-folder-readonly> function does not support variable\r
+> expansions, not to mention default values while doing so. As a result, I\r
+> can easily support $XDG_CACHE_HOME for, say, the history file, but I\r
+> don't know how to make mutt look in some $XDG_CACHE_HOME derived\r
+> directory. (Yes, I'm excluding hackish solutions like have mutt look\r
+> always in the same dir, and make that dir a "moving" symlink that will\r
+> be changed by notmuch-mutt upon execution. That seems to defeat the\r
+> benefits of the XDG specification, at least partly.)\r
+> \r
+> Bottom line: I'll be happy to properly support $XDG_CACHE_HOME, but I'm\r
+> in need on suggestions of how to do so for the Mutt configuration part.\r
+> \r
+> > If notmuch-mutt is accepted into notmuch upstream then it really becomes\r
+> > a part of notmuch and isn't really "public" anymore (at least in the\r
+> > sense that you're using).  So I don't really see any problem with having\r
+> > it use ~/.cache/notmuch.\r
+> \r
+> My thought exactly.\r
+> \r
+> The proposal of documenting how people should use ~/.cache/notmuch is\r
+> great, but I was hoping it can be overlooked for contrib stuff that has\r
+> been vetted by you folks.\r
+> \r
+> Thanks for your help (and for notmuch!)\r
+> Cheers.\r
+> -- \r
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